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Description:This commission is for the 2003 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This year the lecturer is Monica Grady and the subject of the lectures is astronomy. The lectures coincide with the planned landing of Beagle 2 on Mars on 25th December 2003,and it may be possible to incorporate some live footage from this event in one or more of the lectures.